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      bed
      noun
      (countable) A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
      A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
      (usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.
      (uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
      (uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
      (uncountable) Time spent in a bed.
      (figurative) Marriage.
      (figurative, uncountable) Sexual activity.
      A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
      (countable) The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
      An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
      A garden plot.
      A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
      The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
      (US, Canada, automotive) The platform of a truck, trailer, wagon, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
      A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
      (computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
      A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
      (darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
      (trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.
      (heading) A horizontal layer or surface.
      A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
      (countable, geology) The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
      (masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
      (masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
      (masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
      Clipping of bedroom. [A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.]
      Initialism of binge eating disorder. [(medicine) Recurrent binge eating, but without the purging associated with bulimia nervosa.]
      Initialism of banana equivalent dose. [(biology) The radiation dose equivalent of consuming an average banana, equal to 0.01 mrem or 0.1 μSv.]
      Alternative form of B.Ed. (Bachelor of Education). [Bachelor of Education.]
      (printing, dated) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
      verb
      Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
      (intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
      (transitive) To place in a bed.
      (transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
      (ambitransitive) To have sex (with).
      (intransitive, hunting) Of large game animals: to be at rest.
      Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
      (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
      (transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
      (transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
      (transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
      (transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
      To settle, as machinery.
      Synonyms for bed
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